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Janis: Agree with Famous Grouse as blends go. When we want the occaisional scotch old fashioned, we use the "Grouse" with a bit of water rather than soda. Otherwise, Macallan and Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish are still the favorites. Brought back a beautiful thirty year old Dallas Dhu on last trip.

I guess its all a matter of personal taste. I certainly enjoy Macallan and Glenmorangie, but don't really like Tallisker. However, on my last trip to Scotland, I was introduced to Ben Nevis and really, really liked it. Too bad it is so expensive in the U.S.

I'm with Sheila. I like the Islay malts best. But the last time I was in Scotland, about four years ago now I guess, I found time to visit the tiny Edradour distillery and brought away a bottle which I never opened. A couple of years after my trip my brother Christopher won an all expenses paid tour of the single malt distilleries in Scotland -- a wonderful prize for someone so devoted to his malts. But the morning they were going to Edradour he had the opportunity to visit a fish hatchery nearby and as a limnologist, he seized the opportunity expecting one of his mates to pick him up a bottle while there. Well, they didn't. Guess where my Edradour went?

Incidentally, my son and raise and occasionally breed whippet dogs here in Canada, using bloodstock we have imported from England over the years. Our number one stud dog had a fantastic win in Scotland before we brought him over so we decided to name his pups after single malts. We are close to running out of names now and were glad when the last litter only had one pup (Avalonia Bunnahabhain). We greatly enjoy hearing news of Islay in Sweden, Glenfiddich in Finland, Glenlivet in France, Bruichladdich and Glenmoray in Germany etc. Meanwhile we still have Jura (a little wispy and thin boy rather like the real Jura), Lagavulin and Macallan (robust, full bodied girls) and Laphroig (a smooth and rich coloured laddie)at home!

I notice from my newspaper that the Bunnahabhain distillery is advertising 4 cottages for rent at the shore near the distillery & the village.(01496 840646)Jake, Jura used to be my favourite, now its Bunna.

I would have voted with Glenmorangie, being an uneducated whisky drinker, prior to our too-short trip in November. We quickly found other, preferred tastes (such as Mcallan) which will lead us to be lighter in the pocket in the future, undoubtedly! Sheila kindly introduced us to Edradour and we accidentally stumbled across our favorite, Deanston, almost out the back door near Stirling!